Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

rentokil.co.uk

Rentokil UK: Local Pest Control, Damp, Woodworm & Rot Experts

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

169 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

463 ms

rentokil.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rentokil.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 169 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rentokil.co.uk performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

31/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,390 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.2 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rentokil.co.uk

169 ms

www.rentokil.co.uk

254 ms

fonts.css

171 ms

styles.css

665 ms

styles.css

169 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Rentokil.co.uk, 48% (23 requests) were made to Cdn.rentokil.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (665 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.rentokil.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 936.8 kB (62%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

582.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Rentokil.co.uk main page is 1.5 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 55% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 701.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 90.7 kB

  • Original 103.1 kB
  • After minification 76.8 kB
  • After compression 12.4 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 26.3 kB, which is 25% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 90.7 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 80.7 kB
  • After minification 72.9 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Rentokil images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 435.3 kB

  • Original 634.1 kB
  • After minification 631.7 kB
  • After compression 198.9 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 435.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 403.0 kB

  • Original 701.3 kB
  • After minification 700.6 kB
  • After compression 298.3 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Rentokil.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 403.0 kB or 57% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (41%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rentokil. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rentokil.co.uk accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

rentokil.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

rentokil.co.uk SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rentokil.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Rentokil.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Rentokil. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: